H. A. Brendekilde

Sale: Bruun Rasmussen Auctioneers, 1 December 1991, lot 663

Hans Anderson Brendekilde was educated at the Copenhagen Academy of fine arts, where he studied sculpture between 1870 and 1881 before turning exclusively to painting. In 1889, he was awarded an academic scholarship to travel abroad and visited Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy, Egypt, Palestine, and Syria. This portrait of an as-yet unidentified sitter was painted in Cairo, probably from life, on January 23, 1890 as indicated by the inscription at upper left.